DiffusionBear v0.4.2 Apple Silicon MLX Native 4-bit Affine (Q4_64) Non-Commercial CC BY-NC 4.0

Bria FIBO 2.0 Edit Turbo
on Apple Silicon Metal

DiffusionBear v0.4.2 delivers the first-ever 4-bit affine quantized port of Bria AI's FIBO 2.0 Edit Turbo. Run state-of-the-art text-guided edits, multi-reference scene synthesis, and sub-pixel masked inpainting locally with zero cloud dependencies.

DiffusionBear v0.4.2 Release Announcement — FIBO 2.0 Edit Turbo 4-bit MLX
Capability 1 · Natural Language Instruction

Single Image Edit: Text-Guided Attribute Transformation

Transform specific garments, attributes, lighting, or materials from a single reference image without altering identity, pose, or background depth. The integrated 4-bit Qwen3-VL vision encoder visually grounds the source while the 44-layer DiT executes the edit in only 4 Turbo steps.

Prompt: "the jacket color is now red"
Input Reference Image - Man in Yellow Jacket
Input Reference Source Image
Bria AI Original bf16 Output
Bria AI Reference bf16 Baseline
DiffusionBear 4-bit MLX Output
DiffusionBear Studio MLX 4-bit (4 steps)
Capability 2 · Multimodal In-Context Binding

Multiple References: Multi-Subject & Garment Transfer

Combine up to 4 separate images into a single coherent generation. In this benchmark, FIBO2 extracts the identity and pose of the woman from Reference 1, and maps her into the dress cut, color, and fabric texture from Reference 2 while synthesizing a pristine photographic scene.

Prompt: "Generate a new image of the woman from Image 1, keeping her exact face, hairstyle, pose, body shape, and background from Image 1, but make her wear the exact dress from Image 2 (matching the same color, cut, and fabric)."
Reference 1 - Woman Identity
Reference 1 (Identity) Input A
Reference 2 - Dress Texture
Reference 2 (Garment) Input B
Bria AI Multi-Ref Baseline
Bria AI Reference bf16 Baseline
DiffusionBear Multi-Ref MLX Output
DiffusionBear Studio MLX 4-bit (4 steps)
Capability 3 · Sub-Pixel Canvas Precision

Masked Edit (Inpainting): Zero-Variance Area Replacement

Paint directly on the reference backdrop in DiffusionBear Studio. Unmasked regions are strictly preserved with deterministic 1.5px Gaussian edge feathering and alpha compositing, eliminating ambient variance outside the masked area while replacing the target subject with surgical fidelity.

Prompt: "replace the suitcase with a vintage brown leather one"
Original Scene
Original Scene Source Reference
Studio Binary Painted Mask
Studio Painted Mask Binary Mask
Bria AI Inpainting Baseline
Bria AI Reference bf16 Baseline
DiffusionBear Inpainting Output
DiffusionBear Studio MLX 4-bit (4 steps)
Engineering Telemetry

Quantization & Memory Footprint on Apple Silicon

Stock bf16 FIBO 2.0 weights require over 24 GB of storage and peak above 17.4 GB in VRAM, causing immediate out-of-memory aborts or severe OS memory thrashing on 16 GB Apple Silicon Macs. DiffusionBear's affine 4-bit MLX quantization compresses the pipeline to 7.33 GB on disk and maintains a runtime resident working set strictly under 6.8 GB.

Component Original Precision (bf16) 4-bit MLX (`group_size=64`) Compression Ratio
DiT Transformer (44 layers, dim 3584) 15.32 GB 4.26 GB -72.2%
Vision Text Encoder (Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct) 8.27 GB 2.88 GB -65.2%
Latent VAE (FLUX.2 AutoencoderKL fp16) 0.34 GB 0.19 GB -44.1%
Total Model Size on Disk 24.3 GB 7.33 GB -69.8%
Resident Working Set (VRAM) 17.4 GB (OOM / Thrash) < 6.8 GB Runs 100% in RAM
Inference Time (512×768, 4 steps, M1) N/A (Disk swap death) ~85s (21s / step) Zero Swap